i’m v late but hi this is my bean sol, 26 y/o chef who spends 25 hrs a day in a kitchen wearing a chef’s hat that’s taller than she is. under the cut are some basic plots, but hmu if you just feel like brainstorming, or hit that like for a msg from me!
fellow foodies
recipe testers wya
‘i’ll teach u how to survive in a kitchen if u teach me how to survive at a bar’
an unprofessional fire(wo)man who will put out her kitchen fires bc idk... does she even know how to use a fire extinguisher (( no ))
childhood friends from busan
friends from abroad who saw her struggle to function every. single. day.
basically
love/hate rls w exes, frenemies, etc. pls give me all the drama
you happen to catch sol just as she comes up w a new recipe and she uses ur arm to sharpie her ideas all :^) over :^)
awkward blind dates that fail
cute blind dates that still fail
who wants to go grocery shopping :^/
someone who will drag her ass to the gym bc what’s a squat
hi hi hello!! this is ivy (again) with a revamped version of junseo (jongin fc). to keep things short, jian is p much similar to junseo but older and a divorcee with a daughter. you can read the rest about him in his profile here and his bg page here. as for his plot page right here, i haven’t finished the entire thing but you should be able to get the general idea!
anyway, since i tweaked his bg a little i will be dropping all threads (unless you want to keep it, then lmk and i’ll repost my starter/response!). please like this post if you’re interested in plotting and i’ll message you!!
sup!!! here’s my first muse, my lil youngin yanjie 🤘pls let me write with all of u, im and disc are both a-ok! (jsyk muses on the softer side are typically *not* my forte so let’s just take this as challenge #accepted)
expat brat..... corporate urchin....... or whateva :/
daddio’s a diplomat and mom runs a conglomerate with multiple offices across the globe so they’re busy jetsetting everywhere
9 countries in 20 years makes you feel kinda disoriented
most (like 5yrs lol) of his official schooling was done in london, other times he was homeschooled by tutors or did brief stints in international schools
moved to korea with his mom because she’s setting up another office in seoul
good at math and tech stuff, thinks aerospace engineering is fun can u believe?
v outgoing and tries to overcome language barriers. doesn’t think he has anything to lose since most of the people he meets will probably not exist in his life in 5 years
(partly it’s also because he feels like he needs validation and acceptance from others in terms of trying to “keep up with them” by fitting into their social circle)
gets his energy from being around people but also likes being by himself? since that doesn’t require as much conversation bc it gets exhausting at times
numerous out-of-body experiences when he wonders who the fuck he actually is
doesn’t belong anywhere literally, an outsider in every country he goes to, doesn’t have a culture he feels like he’s really part of
mimics a lot of the people he’s surrounded by so that he’s seen as “doing the right thing” instead of being the odd one out, sometimes feels like he doesn’t have a sense of individuality/identity
subconsciously has issues w relationships because he always thinks they’re temporary though or that people don’t really value him and tries to protect himself from becoming too attached, is v dismissive of himself
knows he’s very blessed! yet.. at the same time also gets tired of constantly leaving behind things he’s starting to become rooted to
very open, positive and totally ur feel good friend though, also endearingly clumsy at times
SUNSHINE!
has trouble w the languages he’s speaking most of the time and gets frustrated that he can never 100% express himself completely. his korean is.. kinda decent
LUVS animals hence the part time job
morning person, not a night owl?? crashes at 9 and wakes up at 5 for the hell of it
downs like 12 cups of either black coffee or bubble tea per week
craves a lot of food he can’t get atm.... so he’s better off cooking himself
UHH sum plots!: friends he’s met in various countries but had to leave behind, someone he gets into a misunderstanding with because he uses the wrong phrase in korean/can’t explain himself, some romantic plot thingy because he’s only had like one... gf so plz ~broaden his horizons~, cute crushez, ppl he goes to school with/who take the same module, senior-junior typa things, gaming/running buddies, idk! i’d love love love to develop him more though so let’s come up w thingz
INTRODUCING: miao miao miao! (苗妙妙) not to be confused with mao mao mao (猫猫猫). seriously she’s Sensitive™ about the pronunciation. but if it’s confusing, just miao is fine! local unemployed birdbrain who dropped out of peking university in her last year to run away from home (all the way over in china) and end up here—seoul, home free of parental units, good eats, 車銀優, and i guess—childhood friend @umkci. more juicy details can be found here. a series of 5 things can be found below:
5 facts
her family’s well off back home, working in the electronics industry (cellphones, cars, sth)
ran away because she realizes deep down partaking in the family bzns this is not the future she wanted!!!!!
stole her dad’s collection and some cash when she booked it (gotta have bank!!)
has only been here for 3 months and has gotten fired from all two of her jobs: (1) employee at the local market; fired for eating all the free samples she was supposed to hand out :( (2) chinese tutor for the neighborhood children; fired bc they learned some unsavory vocabulary off her while she was on the phone
smart, picks up on things easy (got into a top uni after all) but doesn’t apply it properly — i.e. in the last three months all she’s learned is close-up magic tricks and how to fix broken things (she broke it) in the house with ramen (linked) no one tell jiang kai
5 plots
"hypothetically, where would one go to pawn a 35k watch?”
^ hypothetically but she’s so getting robbed lmao please help
struggling with communicating with a chinese tourist for directions so she helps out but she also doesn’t know her way around so it’s just a strange game of telephone
forgot her wallet and ik this looks like a scam since she’s covered in designer wear but shes so hungry please :( :( :( you can have her jacket :( :( her shoe :( rings? :( :(
she said something in chinese that you laughed to so now she assumes you know her mother tongue and is ranting on avidly about how—喔喔真好，现在不要只和江凯讲话╥﹏╥）
5 connections
neighbors!! she’s the one up at 2am watching dramas the wall over and crying lowkey thanks. also the one that keeps knocking on the wrong door bc she’s fixated on reading her stories. you were in an elevator with her once and she wibbled and full out silent cried while reading off her phone (was just really really really into it).
friends!! her usual hangouts are hapjeong (just roaming and buying street food honestly), local market (also for more food), hole in the wall chicken shop (omg the seasoning 2 die for), sungkyunkwan uni campus (she doesn’t attend, she just sits in on classes and loiter)
once upon a time — penpals? old acquaintances? school exchange program and so she took you around in beijing
met on vacation or sth and vibed well but forgot to exchange numbers and now it’s ??? oh you!
hi hello everyone lmfao let me pretend it isnt ass o'clock anyways the name’s sun and this is my lil kiddo takeuchi kaito and we're so happy to be here!! under the cut are more details and brief plots :^)
(more in depth tldr, stats, navi) takeuchi kaito, 24 years of age and a barista
before he um told his parents to fuck off and moved countries secretly, he was born in japan (kobe) with a father being ceo of takeuchi enterprises (an extremely large corporation based in japan, famous for its industries of biotechnology, food, entertainment, pharmaceutics, etc) and his mother an ex model
didnt really get to do much as a kid .... basically private school raised, detailed schedules everyday, groomed to become the next heir
had a sudden epiphany aged eighteen when he stuck in a business meeting with his little sister between his father and old men in suits and thought lmfao ... yo this sucks
bottled it up further ... and six years later (aged 24) he helped his father close a deal with samsung .. then went home ... packed all his stuff ... emptied out his bank account and ran away to korea after sending a very expressive voice message to his mother
luckily, his mother’s always just wanted the best for him (imagine no seunghye in sky castle) so she’s cool
the last time he spoke to his father all he managed to hear was “^%$”£$#!#!!!”
currently working as a barista (despite having an embarrassingly large amount of money in his bank) and living in a two bedroom flat (roommates plot?????)
personality wise, just a bit lost with his life at the moment ... like sasuke from the first 500 eps of naruto .... acts like he knows what he’s doing (he doesnt), argumentative, questioning, sharp tongued, but most of that comes from being raised to have those personality traits although he doesn’t mean TOO much harm by it. he’s not really that bad i promise he cant even ride a fuckngin bike
i will hopefully have a coherent plot page soon but for some quickfire plots:
- teach him how to ride a bike please .....
- roommates? kaito lives in a two bedroom flat that’s pretty large. he splits the rent with said roommate and to be fair he doesnt really know why he decided on this one. it was the first one he saw in the hurry of, you know, escaping
- friends ......... just actual friends ............
- enemies .......... maybe he grates on ur nerves maybe u grate on his ..........
- other chaebols that he knows/knew through rich family connections .. + points if they also hate their lives + bonus points if they hate his family or him
- fellow japanese friends that he maybe knew back home or found here
- fwb, no strings attached, pillowtalk .. he swings both ways ..... u know the drill, bonus points if maybe its not as no strings attached as they thought
- regulars at the coffee shop he works at, you see him play the foreigner card when he meets a particularly frustrating customer
- exes (would have to be in japan, as he’s only been in seoul since dec. 2018)
hi all! i’m hel, and this chara is siwon! to do a basic summary: she was going to be a ballerina until a career ruining injury ended that dream forever. in debt and still in need of money, she became an escort and has been one ever since (about 2 years now). during the day, she teaches ballet part time -- mostly community classes, sometimes private (very, very rare -- plot idea??? haha). because you know. those who can’t do, teach.
possible plots include:
clients or anyone else who knows her from her main hustle
students!
classmates?? friends?? that she would have cut off after having her injury -- she went to an arts college
friends from highschool -- being from a small town, she took the long long commute to go to a performing arts high school in seoul
neighbours -- she lives in a studio apartment. maybe you drink beers or smoke cigarettes in comfortable silence? maybe you once found a cat and her newborn kittens and took shared interest in them? who knows! the possibilities are endless
( * hewwo it’s dal/moon back at it again with another muse haha... this one’s my (problematic) son noeul and he’s the co-owner/manager of club paragon in gangnam. his profile is here if you wanna read more about him! you can find some brief bullet points about him under the cut as well as some plot ideas ✌🏻but do give this post a like if you’d like me to come into your ims and get those plots goin!
going for that 인소남 aesthetic lmao (those cringy korean internet novel/manhwa type of vibe... yeah you know what i’m talking about) but really this is all satire pls don’t take him seriously like, ever
so... following that trope... he was that kid in highschool at the back of the classroom ordering kids to bring him bread (we’re talking about both kinds of bread here) and just being a big bully simply because he could :-)
played around in hs but he was always a witty/shrewd kid, so after fucking around until 1st year he started focusing more on his academic duties and made it to uni as a business major
originally from daegu, seolhwa-ri and he’s only moved to seoul after highschool so he hasn’t really adjusted to the seoul ppl’s way of talking 100%, meaning he still has at least 30% of daegu satoori when talking to you
obviously not the most friendly dude out there but he doesn’t go around picking fights for no reason, at least (?) *unsure*
in the gray area between ethical vs. immoral, he probably lets some shady things slide at his club if he deems the cops/press won’t catch his tail on it
always had a passion for producing music and singing but his parents needed help monetarily so he went for business instead, but only his super close acquaintances know this bc he’s kind of embarrassed (?) by it
currently making a comfortable amount of money at paragon, but his lingering sentiments for music is still there and spends his time playing around with logic and his keyboard at home if not working!
PLOTS
the Basics of Basics: childhood friends, close noona/hyung, that one bro who sticks by him for the sake of their long-term friendship even though noeul’s not the best kind of Human Being out there :’)
someone who catches some shady business going on at his club, talks to him about it and he either tries to sweep it under the rug by making a deal with you or however else this might unfold!
if you’re also up to no good, the potential for a Toxic Great Friendship here is infinite
noeul walks up to you to bum a cigarette/lighter at the dead of night but you think he’s tryna hit on you/mug you so you’re like “pls go away shady person” and noeul’s like ??? *offended*
you’re underage and you try sneak into the club, but oof noeul catches you by the back of your shirt going where do you think you’re going, kid???
past fling or whateva, i’m guessing he had a few in highschool through college
his motivator that encourages him to take his passion/talent for music more seriously even though noeul still has no intention of pursuing it professionally (can be a musician but doesn’t necessarily have to be?)
idk im out of ideas and this is getting hella long :^)... JUST HIT ME W/ ANY IDEAS OK IM SUPER OPEN
hi everyone i’m jade & i’m super excited to introduce to yall my disaster child sydney who is ... constantly going thru it but who isn’t amirite? she’s 22 yrs old, a pol sci grad interning @ seoul metropolitan gov, & ur friendly local barista. you can find her (v sparse) profile here, her bio here & i have some more info abt her/plots/etc under the cut. pls like if u wanna plot w my messy child 🥰
born & raised in la and it honestly shows lmao in an alternate universe she was probs two ucla parties and a ksa admission away from becoming an abg but life had other plans for her
former ice skater & olympic hopeful until her dad was diagnosed w/ cancer during the end of her sophomore yr & it basically upended her entire life, causing her to stop her training, take a leave of absence from ucla & fly to seoul to be by his side
things were lowkey looking up for him so she decided to transfer to kyunghee to continue her education & still be here just in case anything happened
unfortunately he passed away and that sent sydney spiraling, leading to her drink/party hard during her junior yr to numb the pain
the only thing that kept her together & prevented her from dropping out was the fact that she would disappoint her mom & sydney would rather die than ever do that so she (kinda?) got her shit together for her senior yr
now that she graduated, she’s just kinda lost and doesn’t know what she wants in life/who she is since everything she’s ever wanted has fallen apart & she can’t exactly be an olympian at her big age anymore so ???
personality wise she’s lowkey a mess but a well-intentioned one! v much a work hard, play hard type of girl & has a tendency to be semi self-destructive as self-punishment thanks to her impulsive nature and habit of being reckless with her own life/health/safety but overall she’s a sweet girl whose socal friendliness is always jumping out
PROMPTS/CONNECTIONS
all types of friends !! close friends who r Tired of her shit, family friends who r lowkey worried abt her, work friends, friends from uni english speaking friends who have to deal w/ her socal ass speaking in italics all the time, etc.
willing (or unwilling) party/drinking buddies who has to deal w the fact that sydney drinks like a sailor which doesn’t make sense bc she’s so small but she keeps shoving shots in your face and its like “🥺 pls syd i might DIE from alcohol poisoning dont u care abt me” (sober her ya, but drunk her just wants u to get on her level)
flings/one night stands/exes/etc. sydney’s a serial ghoster who (almost) exclusively deals in one night stands & has probably broken a bunch of hearts by accident bc she’s just !! not in the place or emotional mindset to be having a real relationship even tho she thinks that would be nice...
honestly someone just clown her for being a juuler like god cant this bith just smoke cigs like a normal person ??? ( the answer is no )
she be going thru it .... u be going thru ... yall be going thru it together & have nightly existential crises which is rly just venting sessions w chimaek OR a destructive co-dependent unhealthy rl based entirely on grief & self-destruction
it’s 2am & britney spears’s blackout has been blasting at an obscene volume in her apartment for the past 2 hours & ur sick and tired of it so u march over to tell her to stfu but when she opens the door she’s crying like ??? wtf is she spiraling to BRITNEY ???
anything literally anything ok im down for whatever !!
